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Any idea why we didn't see more up-and-comers in the 4th quarter? With the game well out of reach, we were still playing Ike Taylor, William Gay, James Harrison, Larry Foote, Aaron Smith... everybody. Not to mention Ben and Mendenhall (who I don't want to overuse for no reason, but that's a separate debate). It seems like an open and shut case to me. You want to prevent injuries, you want to keep guys fresh as much as you can, and what's most important to me, you want to get guys playing time whenever possible.

I would have put in Curtis Brown, Cortez Allen, Keenan Lewis, Jason Worilds, Stevenson Sylvester, and Cameron Heyward, and left them in every play. It's not like putting in a rooke OT that could get your QB killed. If these guys blow it, the worst case scenario is the Seahawks put up a couple of points. Was he trying to make a point by keeping in the starters and shutting them out? Wouldn't the starters consider it a shutout all the same if the 3rd stringers were the ones that allowed a couple points?

Guys whose help we need, like Curtis Brown, need playing experience to get better so they can help. Opportunities like what we had Sunday are very rare. A whole quarter of free time, and we didn't use it at all. Seems like a waste to me. Did he have a point, and do you think it was worth it?

There seemed to be alot of blown assignments on some of those TE's catches in bmore so keeping the d in for some extra time might have been the right call...I still might have taken out Harrison/Ben though.

^--- Robert I agree with you if this was mid-season except for Ben. Harrison yes, let one of the other guys get a little game time under their belt but Ben hasn't exactly been on target with his throws. He too needs the playing time and with the blow out in Balt. These guys needed all the confidence building they could get.IMOZeke